Richard Wesley wrote:

> I noticed that embedded FB seems to require write access to the
> database, even for selects.
>
> Is there any way to work with a read-only fdb file?

Normally Firebird records transaction states, so all queries
are read/write, even those that never change user data. However,
you can use gfix to declare a database as read only

gfix -mode read_only <database>

and it can be used on read only media.

Regards,


Ann